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Article: Two Americans, Briton share medical Nobel. (Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings, James W. Black)
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- October 22, 1988
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Two Americans, Briton share medical Nobel
Gertrude B. Elion was getting dressed at 6:30 a.m. Oct. 17 when a journalist called, congratulating the new Nobel laureate. "I said, 'You're kidding; this must be a joke,'" Elion recalls. "It took me a day before I really began to believe it."
But the telegram from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm confirmed that Elion would share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings, her former co-worker at Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and with Sir James W. Black of King's College Hospital Medical School in London. The Nobel committee cited ...